Under the stage name of Merival, Toronto-based singer-songwriter Anna Horvath has dropped the beautiful ‘No Brakes’ in support of her upcoming debut album Lesson, due for release on August 2^nd 2019. The tune boldly explores mental health, looking into the strangely relevant question of whether an artist needs to be in a darker place to produce ‘good’ music. Musically, crunchy acoustic guitar harmonies and waltz-like rhythms bounce through the track, juxtaposing the lyrical content, while the video follows along slightly tongue-in-cheek. Of the video, Merival states “whereas lyrically we had a serious subject: depression, and does feeling worse make better art? — This topic was given a spin with contrasting musical elements, for the video we took a kind of goofy narrative and tried to lend some gravitas to the actions around it”. -Dan Peeke